From my online Straits Times (paid),
"The twenty bus routes will get 71 additional trips a day.
Double decker and bendy buses will also be deployed instead of the
usual single-decked short buses."
"SBS Transit will add 24 bus trips a day from Mondays to Fridays
and use double-decker buses instead of single-decked ones for
services 9, 27, 45, 53, 131, 145, 163, 166, 183 and 198.
A double-decker bus can pack in 130 people - 40 more than a
single-decked bus.
SMRT will add 47 bus trips daily and deploy more bendy buses for
its heavily used services 67, 75, 180, 184, 187, 188, 190, 858, 911
and 960.
It has also bought nine new buses to service these heavily used
routes, said Ms Kang Huey Ling, vice-president of SMRT Buses.
Bendy buses can take in 125 passengers - 40 more than a normal
bus."
"The additional bus services may not run the full journey.
Take service 45, which runs from its Upper East Coast terminal
to Ang Mo Kio depot. During 'peak of peak' hours, additional trips
will run only from Lorong Ah Soo to the Serangoon MRT station, said
an SBS Transit spokesman."
Hopes this clears the confusion? No wonder got the short-working
trip spam. Wee... I will pass by 27's route and along where 27A
stops before going into service.
